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Washington Times: NCRI reveals IRGC's commercial enterprises |
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Thursday, 16 August 2007 |
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 NCRI - The Washington Times on
Thursday published a report about the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps'
(IRGC) extensive multibillion-dollar
commercial empire ranging from oil fields to honeybee farms.
The Washington Times reported
that the Paris-based National
Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has produced " inventory of IRGC's
commercial enterprises".
The Washington Times quoted NCRI : "On
several occasions, the IRGC has taken over huge pieces of land in posh areas of
major cities, Tehran
in particular, and [has used force] to suppress the other government agencies
that had claims to these lands".
The report added the NCRI's "past exposes of Iran's
secret nuclear and other military operations have proved credible".
According to a survey by the Brussels-based
International Crisis Group, the IRGC's engineering arm, known as the Ghorb
Khatam, won a string of major contracts from the Ahmadinejad government, including
a $1.2 billion deal to build part of the Tehran subway, a $1.3 billion oil
pipeline contract, and a no-bid $2.09 billion commission to develop parts of
the vast South Pars natural gas field, Washington Times added.
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